“And they’ve had contact with how many other people?”
Well, they went to school. So, everyone in the school, which is being monitored as well.
What a ginormous clusterflop.
And what about all the people that sat in the E.R. (probaby for hours) with this guy when he went for treatment the first time?
If the CDC and the reporting is to be believed, then the man sought treatment on 9/26 which was a Friday and was admitted to the hospital on 9/28 which was a Sunday.
Since he had no symptoms prior to Friday, then the children’s first day of exposure when it was contagious was Friday. If they attended school on Friday, they would not have been in the contagious state.
Lot’s of ifs in that assumption.